Are you ever worried about embarrassing Facebook memories popping up for family members, friends or even potential employers? I’m sure many of us have had this worry. After all. Facebook has been around for just over 16 years, which is certainly plenty of time to record some of our embarrassing thoughts, actions or trends over the last decade. The good news is there is no need to worry anymore! Facebook recently launched a new ‘Manage Activity’ feature, enabling users to curate how their profile appears on the platform. To do this users can delete posts and archive content that they no longer want appearing on their Facebook profile.
Our team at Tolmer Group are taking you through everything you need to know about this new Facebook feature, how you can use it to clean your profile and when the feature will be rolled out to you. For a quick breakdown of the feature check out the video below:
What is the Manage Activity Feature
Essentially, Facebook’s new Manage Activity feature works by allowing you to audit your Facebook profile and remove any content which you don’t want popping up on there to embarrass you, or even harm future job prospects. Facebook users can either delete posts entirely or archive them so that only their personal profile has access to them. We are going to break down how both of these options work:
Deleting posts from your profile is what you will want to do if you are sure you don’t want to ever see it again. When auditing your post history, you will be able to move posts you no longer want on your profile to a temporary trash bin. The posts will remain in the trash for 30 days, or until you choose to manually delete them. We love this feature as it allows you to truly consider if you want to delete certain posts, and it does provide a solid back-up option in case you ‘delete’ a post by accident.
If you don’t want to delete your post permanently, but do want to make sure no one else can see it then the archive option is perfect for you. This part of the new Manage Activity feature allows you to store old posts on the platform in a way in which only that user can see it. This is a great choice for any embarrassing school memories, as described by Facebook:
… you could archive a post you made when you were in high school that you still find amusing but that you’d rather not be seen by anyone else on Facebook.
Facebook has also ensured that this new feature is incredibly easy to use. Users can view, delete and archive their post history in bulk and even use handy filters like date ranges and posts including other Facebook users. This makes cleaning up your Facebook profile so much easier, especially for those looking to delete posts after a breakup!
When Can I Use It?
This new Facebook feature is not yet available for all devices and users. Facebook began rolling out the Manage Activity feature in early June to some mobile users and Facebook lite users. There is no timeline yet for this feature to become available on all devices and in all locations, however generally this should happen within 6 to 12 months. To stay up to date on when this feature is becoming available for certain devices you can follow the official Facebook Newsroom by clicking here.
Here is Facebook’s official statement on that timeline:Manage Activity will launch first on mobile and Facebook Lite, and will be available on desktop in the future.
What Are Your Thoughts?
What do you think about Facebook’s new Manage Activity feature? Will you be using this to change the look of your Facebook profile? We think this is a great new feature from the Facebook team, allowing us all to delete any embarrassing memories of the past that we don’t want coming up every year!
If you have any questions about this new Facebook feature or even just questions about Facebook in general you can get in contact with our team by clicking here, or reach us on our Instagram, Facebook or LinkedIn pages. We are always more than happy to answer any questions you may have.
